The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-23

prohibition, ana georgia ls one VI tno
bsppiest States in the South to-day. If
Tennessee will only prohibit for twenty.
four months, never will whisky be sold
In her border again.
One barkeeper in Rome stood on the
street and said: "Taint prohibition, its
confscation." Ten years ago he came to
Rome not worth $3.50, and now after sell.
ing his infamous drugs there for ten
years he is worth s8o,0OO, and no@ he
talks about confscation after robbing the
people of Rome out Of $4,000.
say that whisky has had sway in
Tennessee long enough; let us try it
awhile and if ne don't have little gov
ernment and run things better then I
will give it up and let the whisky men
have it forever after.
PUPPIES" ON THE FENCE.
My friends, it is every mans duty to
take sides in this fight. I have more re-
gard for a man who is square out for
WHISKY than for one of those little pup.
pies who sets on the fence and don't
know where be is going to fall, or if he
knows when he ought to 60, is afraid.
I would call such man a dog, bat he's
too small.
AS TO NEWSPAPERS.
It is the duty of every minister of the
gospel to take sides on this question; it
it the duty ofthe religious papers to take
sides; it is the duty of the - I like
to said the secular papsts; but I'll have
to take it back; 1 guess. Those secular
papers are like the fellow on the fence.
They are in the lane between two grassy
plots, prohibition on one side and whisky
on the other, and all they getis the pick.
ings thrown to them from both sides, aud
that's what they live on. It's grass, my
friends, grass, grass for the editorial OK.
I believe that it is the duty of every
newspaper to take stand one way or the
other. God Almighty give us men in
the editorial chair who have honest con.
victions on this subject and who are not
afraid to express theml But they ara
all afraid that they won't get any more
of the grass. Isay to you, prohibitionists,
stand by the paper that stands by you.
The newspapers of this town have said
a heap of things about me, good, bad and
Indifferent. They have told the truth as
we'll as lies on me, and l thank them for
both. I make no. war on newspapers and
don'tcare whether they make war on me
or not.
A little weazen editor up here in Vir-
ginia got onto me, but what thought
about him was that when little feller
gets handful of type, bottle of ink
and jug of whisky aud jumps on me, it
don't amount to much. I've been swal.
lowed at by whales, nibbled at by min
nows, but God deliver me from ants.
Give us men of convictions who
will take a bold stand against this dam.
nable evil; give us men for or against.
Some Of our preachers say, "I'm afraid
to talk prohibition for fear it will offend
some of my congregation" I despise
one of these lean, finely dressed preach.
ers who perfume themselves with laven.
der and who are too pioua to take a.
stand for the right. There are some
preachers who talk for liquor and if
there is man who comes to hell that
the devil will bride and uaddle and gal.
lop all over perdition it will be one of
these beer drinking, whisky selling
preachers.
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
Oh, my brethren, take the right side
in this fight. Who are on the side of
the saloons? There are q few clever
men, but they are in wretched company.
On the side of prohibition are our wives,
our sisters, all that is good and pure, and
the preservation of society.
don't like the crowd on the other
side. You will find as supporters of the
barrooms, wife. beaters, murderers,
thieves, thugs, gamblers, all the vice and
crime in the calendar. l can't 60 with
that crowd; I know, too, when look at
the two sides that am on Gods side.